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There is a gigantic market of vendors choose from, and sometimes it’s easiest to just say “We’re going to avoid vendor X because they create risk for us.” The
by trollbridge 2y ago
There is a gigantic market of vendors choose from, and sometimes it’s easiest to just say “We’re going to avoid vendor X because they create risk for us.”
The above poster didn’t say he’s banning HPE, either. Just HP. I doubt anyone will really suffer from banning HP products.
We have a policy of only buying Brother, Epson, and Canon desktop/office printers with an exception for Lexmarks that are laser printers and have specific built in features. It means a lot less drama supporting them and getting supplies (even though we only use OEM supplies, or else get service and supplies through a click charge maintenance contract).
There’s still a fleet of ancient HP printers, including a workhorse 20-year-old LaserJet still printing 11x17 sheets.
- ohgr 2y agoWe already banned HPE after they let us down on service several times. Literally no parts availability and crappy support for 3 years. Moved to AWS. We were a very large spender on HPE / 3PAR stuff. The whole org has been gutted in the last decade.
- trollbridge 2y agoAgreed. We have some random HPE switches lying around. The second any of them fail they’ll go in the rubbish* and be replaced with Ubiquiti gear, most likely. *to be responsibly recycled/disposed of.